Curriculum Vita Patricia Cukor-Avila
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Curriculum Vita Patricia Cukor-Avila WORK CONTACT INFORMATION University of North Texas Department of Linguistics, College of Information 1155 Union Circle #311068 Denton, TX 76203-5017 [email protected] EDUCATION 1995 Ph.D. University of Michigan; Linguistics 1984 MA Texas A&M University; Spanish 1977 BA Texas A&M University; Spanish major, French minor PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS 2018- Professor, Linguistics Program, College of Information, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 2016-2018 Professor and Interim Chair, Linguistics Program, College of Information, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 2014-2016 Associate Professor and Director, Linguistics Program, College of Information, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 2008-2014 Associate Professor, Dept. of Linguistics and Technical Communication, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 2001-2008 Associate Professor, Dept. of English, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 1996-2001 Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 1994-1995 Lecturer, Dept. of English, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 1993-1994 ESL/Bilingual Instructor, Anderson Elementary School, Conroe, TX 1992-1993 Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Education, University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX 1992-1993 Adjunct Lecturer, Humanities Division, Kingwood College, Kingwood, TX 1991 Adjunct Lecturer, Humanities Division, North Harris College, Aldine, TX 1989-1991 Adjunct Lecturer, Dept. of English and Language and Culture Center, University of Houston, Houston, TX 1988-1989 Teaching Assistant, Program in Linguistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 1987-1988 Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Romance Languages, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 1987 Instructor (ESL, GED), Community Education, College Station, TX 1986-1987 Lecturer, English Language Institute, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 1985-1986 Lecturer, Dept. of Modern Languages, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 1982-1984 Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Modern Languages, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Cukor-Avila p. 2 OTHER INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES Summer 2019 American Dialect Society Professor; 2019 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Institute, University of California, Davis. Spring 2003 2-week course on African American English taught for students in the English Applied Linguistics doctoral program at the Univ. of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary. Summer 1993 Lecturer, Department of English, Oklahoma State University program at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, México. CONSULTING 2002-2005 Linguistics consultant (1% effort) for a National Institute of Health (NIH) grant, “Narrative in African Americans and Caucasians with Aphasia,” awarded to Dr. Gloria Streit Olness, University of Texas at Dallas, Callier Center for Communication Disorders. 1995 ESL consultant for Decatur ISD, Decatur, TX. 1993 Alternative Teacher Certification Program, Region IV Education Service Center, Houston, TX. AREAS OF EXPERTISE Sociolinguistics; African American Vernacular English; Language Variation and Change; Dialectology; English as a Second Language; Bilingualism/Bilingual Education; Spanish SCHOLARLY, CREATIVE, AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS) Bailey, Guy, Natalie Maynor, and Patricia Cukor-Avila, eds. (1991). The Emergence of Black English: Texts and Commentary. Amsterdam: john Benjamins. PUBLICATIONS (ARTICLES IN JOURNALS AND EDITED VOLUMES) Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Ashley Balcazar (2019). “Exploring grammatical variation in a corpus of regional African American language.” In “Exploring African American Language in the Nation’s Capital: Studies with the Corpus of Regional African American English,” ed. by Tyler Kendall and Charlie Farrington. Special issue, American Speech 94, no. 1: 36-53. Cukor-Avila, Patricia (2018). “A variationist approach to studies of language regard.” Language Variation and Change: Regard and Contact, ed. by Betsy E. Evans, Erica Benson, and james Stanford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 31-61. Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey (2017). “The effect of small Ns and gaps in contact on panel survey data.” Panel Studies of Variation and Change, ed. by Suzanne E. Wagner and Isabelle Buchstaller. New York: Routledge Ltd, 210-45. Cukor-Avila p. 3 jeon, Lisa and Patricia Cukor-Avila (2016). “Urbanicity and language variation and change: Mapping dialect perceptions in and of Seoul.” Cityscapes and Perceptual Dialectology: Global Perspectives on Non-Linguists Knowledge of the Dialect Landscape, ed. by jennifer Cramer and Chris Montgomery. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 97-116. Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey (2015). “Rural Texas African American vernacular English.” Oxford Handbook of African American Language, ed. by Sonja Lanehart. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 181-200. jeon, Lisa and Patricia Cukor-Avila (2015). “‘One country, one language?’ Mapping perceptions of dialects in South Korea.” Dialectologia 14: 17-46. Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey (2013). “Real and apparent time.” Handbook of Language Variation and Change, ed. by Jack Chambers and Natalie Shilling. Boston: Wiley- Blackwell, 239-62. Cukor-Avila, Patricia (2012). “Some structural consequences of diffusion.” Language in Society 41:1-26. Cukor-Avila, Patricia, Lisa Jeon, Patricia C. Rector, Chetan Tiwari, and Zak Shelton (2012). “Texas – It’s like a whole nuther country”: Mapping Texans’ perceptions of dialect variation in the Lone Star state.” Texas Linguistics Forum 55, Proceedings of the 20th Annual Symposium About Language and Society – Austin, 10-19. Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey (2011). “The interaction of transmission and diffusion in the spread of linguistic forms.” University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Selected Papers from NWAV 39. 17: 41-49. Cukor-Avila, Patricia (2005). “Researching naturally occurring speech.” The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Second Edition, ed. by Keith Brown, section editor Miriam Meyerhoff, 556-63. Oxford: Elsevier Limited. Cukor-Avila, Patricia (2003). “The complex grammatical history of African American and White vernaculars in the South.” English in the Southern United States, ed. by Stephen Nagle and Sara Sanders, 85-102. Cambridge: CUP. Cukor-Avila, Patricia (2002). “‘She say,” “she go,” “she be like”: Verbs of quotation over time in African American Vernacular English.’” American Speech 77: 3-31. Cukor-Avila, Patricia (2001). “Co-existing grammars: The relationship between the evolution of African American Vernacular English and White Vernacular English in the South.” Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English, ed. by Sonja Lanehart, 93-127. Philadelphia: john Benjamins. Cukor-Avila p. 4 Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey (2001). “The effects of the race of the interviewer on sociolinguistic fieldwork.” Journal of Sociolinguistics. 5.2: 254-70. Cukor-Avila, Patricia (2000). “Revisiting the observer’s paradox.” American Speech. 75:253-4. Cukor-Avila, Patricia (1999). “Stativity and copula absence in AAVE: Grammatical constraints at the sub-categorical level.” The Journal of English Linguistics. 27.4: 341-55. Cukor-Avila, Patricia (1997). “An ethnolinguistic approach to the study of Rural Southern AAVE.” Language Variety in the South Revisited, ed. by Cynthia Bernstein, Thomas Nunnally, and Robin Sabino, 447-62. University of Alabama Press. Cukor-Avila, Patricia (1997). “Change and stability in the use of verbal -s over time in AAVE.” Englishes Around the World. Vol. 1: General Studies, British Isles, North America. Studies in Honour of Manfred Görlach, ed. by Edgar W. Schneider, 295-306. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: john Benjamins. Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey (1996). “The spread of urban AAVE: A case study.” Sociolinguistic Variation: Data, Theory, and Analysis. Selected papers from NWAV-23 at Stanford ed. by Jennifer Arnold, Renee Blake, Brad Davidson, Scott Schwenter, and Julie Solomon, 469-85. Stanford: CSLI Publications. Carey, Kathy and Patricia Cukor-Avila (1996). “By me bein’ pregnant I would stay sick all the time: Causal by and from in African American Vernacular English.” in Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society ed. by Jan Johnson, Matthew L. Juge, and Jeri L. Moxley, 46-57. Berkeley: University of California, Department of Linguistics. Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey (1995). “An approach to sociolinguistic fieldwork: A site study of rural AAVE in a Texas community.” English World-Wide. 16.2: 159-93. Cukor-Avila, Patricia and Guy Bailey (1995). “Grammaticalization in AAVE.” Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society, ed. by Jocelyn Ahlers, Leela Bilmes, Joshua S. Guenter, Barbara A. Kaiser, and ju Namkung, 401-13. Berkeley: University of California, Department of Linguistics. Bailey, Guy, Natalie Maynor, and Patricia Cukor-Avila (1989). “Variation in subject-verb concord in Early Modern English.” Language Variation and Change. 1: 285-300. Cukor-Avila, Patricia (1989). “Determining change in progress vs. stable variation in two studies of Black English Vernacular.” The SECOL Review. XIII (No. 2): 92-124. Cukor-Avila, Patricia (1988). “The effect of accent on speech and personality judgments.” Papers in Applied Linguistics Michigan (PALM). 3 (No. 2): 1-20. Cukor-Avila p. 5 Hadaway, Nancy L. and Patricia Cukor-Avila (1987). “Dual language input, dual language output: Writing in an elementary bilingual program.” Papers in Applied Linguistics Michigan (PALM). 3 (No 1): 46-63.